If you can't flex it, you can't fix it...

Mind muscle connection...we’ve heard the saying but what does it mean?

I started weight training when I was only 13 and I had grown up on a hobby farm, so my body was exposed to thousands of patterns of movement day to day.

What I was to learn years later was that the movements I was doing my body were controlled by my mind, and my mind/brain had stored the movements of my past...movement memories!

Collectively these “movement memories” are stored in what we call our procedural memory, that is to say, the how-to move memories.

This is an important consideration when it comes to exercise and muscular development, if we lack the memory of various types of movement based on our limited exposure to exercise, then we need to be more aware of what our body is doing when we exercise.

The notion that a specific exercise will make a certain muscle or group of muscles grow is only partially right, exercise only stimulates what we already have access to, and does not necessarily make our weaker muscles stronger.

There is more to this than I have space to write, so try and simple process...think about the muscle you are trying to develop...

Look at it in the mirror...poke it a few times acknowledging where it is (focus) and then try and flex it repeatedly. 

Each time you flex see if you can increase the level of tension every time (flex harder).

After doing this successfully now and do whatever exercise you have chosen for the body part and “focus” on flexing the muscle first, then move the weight.

There is truth to the statement that “it’s the thought that counts”!

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